Bo Melton or A.J. Brown: who should I start in Week 5?
Both players' season market price, their usage this season and their last full season's numbers, with the draft market's own figures wherever it still has them.
Updated Oct 11, 2026 at 11:01 AM ET
Neither is in the consensus draft sample any more, and the market has not posted a whole price on A.J. Brown, so there is no current market order to give between these two. What follows is what each of them has already done.
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WR102 · GB · bye unlisted
2026 vs anytime td line 0-4
- Market price
- 0.9 pts a game
- Draft pick
- no consensus
WR103 · NE · bye 11
2025 vs rec yds line 6-9
- Overall rank
- 256
- Draft pick
- no consensus
- Tier
- 20
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The gap
- Pick differencenot comparable without a consensus on both
- Board size285 draftable players
Consensus average draft position has stopped updating on these two, so the figures that depend on it are left out rather than printed stale. The verdict line above restates the market price and nothing else.
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Where the draft room stands
Drafters have formed no consensus on Bo Melton: he carries no ADP, and the board ranks him 241st overall on the rest of his evidence.
Drafters have formed no consensus on A.J. Brown: he carries no ADP, and the board ranks him 256th overall on the rest of his evidence.
In 2QB drafts he goes at ADP 23.
What the player markets price
The player markets price Bo Melton at 0.9 PPR points a game, built from 3 markets across 16 market sources. That is the 221st highest figure of the 225 players the market prices.
No season market is posted for A.J. Brown, so the only market valuing him on this page is the draft room.
This season so far
Through Week 4, Bo Melton has been on the field for 19 percent of GB snaps, drawn 3 percent of the targets and had 0 percent of the red zone chances.
He has taken 2 of the offence's 41 third down targets, had 0 of its 11 chances inside the five and seen 2 of its 23 two minute targets.
His 4 targets have averaged 18.5 air yards.
In Week 2 against NYJ he caught 0 of 1 target for 0 yards and did not score.
In Week 3 against ATL he caught 0 of 1 target for 0 yards and did not score.
In Week 4 against TB he caught 0 of 1 target for 0 yards and did not score.
Through Week 1, A.J. Brown has been on the field for 44 percent of NE snaps, drawn 13 percent of the targets and had 0 percent of the red zone chances.
He has taken 3 of the offence's 11 third down targets, had 0 of its 1 chance inside the five and seen 0 of its 6 two minute targets.
His 4 targets have averaged 4.8 air yards.
In Week 1 against SEA he caught 3 of 4 targets for 26 yards and did not score.
Their 2025 seasons
In 2025 Bo Melton played 16 games and scored 24.2 PPR points, 1.5 a game, finishing WR146.
He caught 4 of 13 targets for 107 yards and 1 touchdown, with 0 red zone targets.
That came to 0.8 targets a game, a 31 percent catch rate and 26.8 yards a catch.
He was on the field for 9 percent of the snaps in the games he played.
In 2025 A.J. Brown played 15 games and scored 220.3 PPR points, 14.7 a game, finishing WR11.
He caught 78 of 121 targets for 1003 yards and 7 touchdowns, with 12 red zone targets.
That came to 8.1 targets a game, a 64 percent catch rate and 12.9 yards a catch.
He was on the field for 91 percent of the snaps in the games he played.
Bo Melton was available for 1 game more.
Head to head
In 2025 A.J. Brown scored 14.7 PPR points a game and Bo Melton 1.5, 13.2 a game between them.
Bo Melton finished WR146 that year and A.J. Brown WR11.
A.J. Brown had 108 more targets than Bo Melton, 121 to 13.
A.J. Brown had 896 more receiving yards than Bo Melton, 1003 to 107.
This season A.J. Brown holds the bigger snap share, 44 percent against 19 percent.
This season A.J. Brown holds the bigger target share, 13 percent against 3 percent.
Byes and availability
A.J. Brown is off in Week 11. No bye is listed for Bo Melton.
A.J. Brown is listed as ir on the injury report.
What would change the answer
A.J. Brown has no posted market, so one half of the evidence on this page exists for only one of them.
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